RnD-Africa: Super Electric Bikes made in Ghana

Do you see where I am seated?

This is what we bring you on this
episode of R&D Africa on AAU TV.

The spotlight has been put on the young
Lawrence Adjei, who has been able to make

this electronic motorcycle
from dead laptop batteries.

Stay tuned.
We'll bring you more.

In an era where environmental protection,
fitness and green travel

are increasingly being valued and
practiced by people,

what comes to mind when
transportation that allows you

to avoid road traffic congestion,

be green and environmentally
friendly is mentioned.

Electric bicycles or e-bikes
are equipped with electric devices

activated to assist
or replace peddling.

They provide a number of benefits.

They are fuel efficient, faster,
reduces traffic congestion

and are mostly non-pollutant.

Inventors mainly rely on
batteries such as lithium-ion,

nickel-cadmium,

lithium-cobalt batteries

lead acid,

nickel-metal hydrate,

lithium-magnanese

and lithium-ion polymer
batteries as the accessories.

Interestingly, a young
Ghanaian, Lawrence Adjei

has added to the innovations
in the electric bike industry.

He uses sports laptop
batteries, which he purchases

from scrap yards and computer
shops in Accra to make his unique e-bikes.

He is known to be the first
Ghanian to make electric bicylces

from sports laptop batteries
and he is self-taught.

I stay close to Lawrence and
I happen to be his co-helper.

This is not my first time riding.

I've been riding for two years now.

The experience is different.

Different. I can't even compare
because riding a normal bicycle...

is full of pain.

And then you actually admire the
kind of kilometers you need to go.

So this is really different compared
to the ones I have ever used.

This has three gears
and then the others don't.

It has a brake which charges the battery
back when applying, the others don't have.

It has a USB spot which
can charge your phone

or use a USB light.

Which others don't have.

And then it also has a bell,
the others didn't have a bell.

And then the brakes are instant stop.

They stop instantly.

Next. Coming to the battery,

it has a large capacity,
which you can even

give a house a light.

This is where Mr. Lawrence
AJ makes all the inventions.

This is where the
creation of electric bicycles

made out of dead
laptop batteries happens and

I'm currently here with Mr. Lawrence.

Take us through
the process involved in the

usage of these batteries
to make the electric bicycle.

So you have the batteries here.

So, you just crack them like this.

You sometimes bend it or...

or use a plier.

Okay

You can see that we
don't use all the cells.

This one is here, the bud.

- Okay
- You can't use this one, so

You find a different one.

Try another one.

Same.

This one is okay, So you take
like the motherboard

- of the battery. So...
- Okay

So taking them off

[Inaudible]

Then take the cells out like this.

Okay

So in total, how many
of these do you need?